349, Lot: 261. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARCADIA, Phigalia. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Assarion (21mm, 3.89 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 198-209. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΦI-A-ΛЄωN, Minerva standing left, holding patera and spear. BCD Peloponnesos 1656.1 var. (ethnic spelled with Ω rather than ω); BCD Peloponnesos II 2917 var. (same); NCP p. 107; Dura –; BMC –. Near VF, dark green patina. Extremely rare, and apparently an unpublished variety.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.